Bob Dylan: 6 Brilliant Live Performances From The Year 1994

Bob Dylan: Nah, it was just another show, really. We just blew in and blew out of there. You do wonder if you’re coming across, because you feel so small on a stage like that.

Never Ending Tour 1994

Start date

February 5, 1994

End date

November 13, 1994

Legs

5

No. of shows

14 in Asia
73 in North America
17 in Europe
–
104 in Total

A fine N.E.T. year with 3 very special moments:

Playing “Masters of War” in Hiroshima

The Great Music Experience – Nara, Japan

Woodstock 94

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Hiroshima Koseinenkin Kaikan
Hiroshima, Japan
16 February 1994

Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)

Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)

John Jackson (guitar)

Tony Garnier (bass)

Winston Watson (drums & percussion)

Masters of War

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

Todaiji TempleNara, Japan22 May 1994The Great Music Experience. Produced by Tony Hollingsworth.

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways
I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

Palais Des Sports
Besançon, France
4 July 1994

Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)

Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)

John Jackson (guitar)

Tony Garnier (bass)

Winston Watson (drums & percussion)

Tears of Rage

We carried you in our arms
On Independence Day
And now you’d throw us all aside
And put us on our way
Oh what dear daughter ’neath the sun
Would treat a father so
To wait upon him hand and foot
And always tell him, “No?”
Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know
We’re so alone
And life is brief

Woodstock ‘94Saugerties, New York14 August 1994

Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)

Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)

John Jackson (guitar)

Tony Garnier (bass)

Winston Watson (drums & percussion)

It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
Look out the saints are comin’ through
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue

Roseland Ballroom
New York City, New York
19 October 1994

Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)

Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)

John Jackson (guitar)

Tony Garnier (bass)

Winston Watson (drums & percussion)

Shelter From the Storm

’Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form
“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”